CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1937, the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Airways and Airports Division organized an airport inspection trip to review work undertaken at ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program employed more ...

During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt created his New Deal Program. It comprised a number of works projects to get people working again including the Works Progress Administration ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for millions of people in the United States during a time of great uncertainty. Overland Trail Museum explored how the WPA started and its many ...

Long before "stimulus" became a dirty word in some quarters of Washington, the federal government put people to work building things. Lots of things. This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the ...

When this reporter was a lad during the Great Depression, I took the yellow streetcar to downtown L.A. and paid 10 cents to see a first-class vaudeville show, complete with singers, dancers, comedians ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal agency created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide jobs to millions of unemployed people during the Great Depression. Its main ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1937 Works Progress Administration (WPA) film celebrates New Deal programs designed to help the Buckeye State. Highlighted projects include ...

We are facing so many crises all at the same time. COVID-19 cases are again rising, a pandemic of racial oppression has spawned an uprising in U.S. cities as well as around the globe, and sky-high ...